Shipping-receptacle.



M. LACHMAN.

SHIPPING RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED ocT. 22, I9I0.

LM75 Patented July 27, 1915.

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, /VVIE/VTH n MAURICE LACHMN t' BY i M. LACHIVIAN. SHIPPING HECEPTACLE.

APPLlcATloN FILED ocT. z2. 1910.

Patented July 27,

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lL gli )Nm/70H MAURICE LACHMAN MAURICE LACHMAN, 0F NEW' YORK, N. Y. LACI-IMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

DELAWARE.

, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., .A CORPORATION OF SHIPPING-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, i915.

Application led October 22, 1910. Serial No. 588,417.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, MAURICE LACHMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Shipping-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to receptacles or packages for shipping various articles such as fruit, hardware or goods of any nature whatsoever.

The main object of the invention is to provide a receptacle light in weight but capable of rough handling and which will be of 'a knock-down type so that, when empty, the receptacles can be stored in a very small space and can be shipped at very low rates owing to the compactness with which the parts can be bundled together.

Another object is to secure a very cheap construction in a knockdown shipping package and which can b e readily7 'and quickly assembled when desired to use the package. This cheapness in construction is attained without sacrificing strength and when the parts are assembled the receptacle is as rigid as though it was not of the knockdown type.

Heretofore by known methods it has not been practical to construct a knock-down type of shipping packagein large sizes nor to apply the knock-down idea to receptacles in which it `was desired to forward heavyr weights but such receptacles had to be made and assembled complete in the factory in order to insure the necessary strength or weight-carrying capacity.

Owing to the increasing cost of wood, and the heavy material necessary to stand the rough handling in shipping, preferably employ paper sections and reinforce them with metal strips whereby a very much lighter package is attained than could possibly be used to ship the same weight of goods in a wooden receptacle and in so far as I am aware such a structure in a knockdown package has heretofore not been conceived or constructed in the manner set forth in the appended claims.

The invention consists in the :improved construction of knock-down shipping recep* tacle hereinafter more particularly described and then specified in the claims.

In the accompanyingdrawings Figure l illustrates a side elevation of a cylindrical receptacle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the saine. Fig. 3 is an enlarged central section of one end ofthe receptacle, the section bemg takenl on the line of junction of two of. the separate sections making up the body portion of the receptacle. Fig. .4 is a side elevation of one of the detached sections. Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section on the line X X F ig.l 4. Fig. 6 is a plan View of a rectangular form of receptacle constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of one of the detached sections of the form illustratediii 6. Fig. 8 is an edge view of the same. F1g. 9 is a vertical section taken on theline l l Fig. 6 showing only the upper part of the receptacle. Fig. l0 is a horizontal section on the line Z Z Fig. 7. Fig. 11 illustrates a modification in the manner of joining the sections together.

The receptacle is made up of a plurality of individual sections or parts forming the body portion and the heads or closures secured to the body portion and closing in the receptacle.

The body portion consists of a plurality of separate independent sections and in the forms illustrated four sections are employed will be understood that the body might consist of any number of sections desii-ed varying, as a rule, according to the size and character of the receptacle. In the form shown in Figs. l to 5 inclusive, each section is made up as a quadrant so that when joined together along their longitudinal edges they form a cylindrical body portion as shown in Fig. 2. 'Each section consists of a sheet or plate of continuous,

Apreferably imperforate, material such as heavy paper or cardboard 1 made up preferably by compressing and solidifying a number of superimposed layers of paper in a manner now well known in paper making.

Located at each side edge of the material l are ,metallic stay members 2, 3 each provided with a number of longitudinally disposed inwardly projecting ears or llanges 4 and a number of outwardly projecting ears or flanges 5. These ears are preferably formed in a staggered manner from the material of the stay member by slitting the edge of the strip and bending one section ofI the metal one way and its neighbor in the opposite direction and so on in an obvious manner. The paper plate 1 is placed against the inner surface of the stay Amembers 2, 3 and the ears 4 bent' around the edge ofthe plate and engage the opposite surface of the plate 1 thereby fastening the stay members to the paper plate. Preferably the stay members 2, 3 are part of a framework made by connecting the stay members by bands 6, 7 preferably welded at 8 to the' stay members at or near both ends.

The bands 6, 7 are each provided with an inwardly projecting flange which engages the upper and lower edge respectively of the material fthereby serving with the flanges or ears 4 to inclose and effectually hold the material 1 to the reinforcing framework whereby aI retaining frame is formed l1n which thematerial is inclosed and held. In making up the section the framework is preferably first constructed by welding the stay members and bands together, as described, after which the plate 1 lis placed in position between the flanges of the bands and the ears 4 folded over. If desired, further reinforcing means might be employed such as one or more bandsf9 secured'to the stay members 2, 3, preferably by welding ltheends thereto at poi-nts between the bands 6 and 7. Also additional stay members might be employed betweenthe members 2 and 3 although if employed-it will be obvious they would not need to be provided with the ears or flanges 4, 5.

The ends of the stay members 2, 3 are I elongated beyond the outer edges of the bands 6 and 7, thereby forming ears 10 by means of which the heads or closures for .the body portion are secured thereto in a manner to be presently described..

11 indicates a coupling piece or connecting strip provided with an inturnedflange at'both longitudinal edges, each of which engages the outwardly projecting ears or flanges 5 of the stay members, the ears of the member 2 of one section being connected to the ears of the member 3 of the Inext section by the coupling piece 11`when joining the sections together to form the body portion of the receptacle. The sections are joined together by presenting the edges of two sections together and slipping the coupling pieces endwise over the flanges 5 of the stay members. I f des1red after the coupling piece is in place the flanges might be pinched with a pair of pliers or'otherwise to prevent Vaccidental withdrawal.

It will be noted that the strain" at the junction of the sections is taken by the reinforcing means and not by the material 1. The framework of each section is joined to that of the nextgsection whereby a bodyportion isattained having a rigid and connected reinforcement, none of the 'strain of holding the sections together falling on the material 1.`

The body portion is provided with upper and lower heads or closures. Each. head consists of an annular ring 14 provided with an outwardly projecting flange 15 at its outer edge and an inwardly projecting flange 16 at its inner edge. Seated on the inwardly projecting flange 16 is a disk 17 preferably of heavy paper and held in place by a'- plurality of ears 18 cut out of the materialA of the ring 14 and bent over to engage the surface of the disk 17 opposite the flange 16.. If desired, the head may be reinforced by a second disk 19 glued or otherwise securedto the disk 17 and also, if desiredin some cases, metal reinforcing strips or lattices might be superimposed on the disk 17 and the ends of the strips welded or otherwise secured to a suitable part of the ring 14.

The-head is placed on the body portion,

In this case two. intermediate stay members 2, 3 are employed owing to the large area of flat paper 1 used as the inclosing medium. The reinforcing metal strips might be further strengthened by raising rbs20. W- A In this form theoutwardly projecting flange 5 is shown as continuous and the material 1 held on the other side by ears 21 cut from the material of the stay members. Except thatthey are rectangular in form the heads are formed in thesa-me general manner as before and secured by the projecting ears 10 of the stay members.

As shown in the modification Fig. 11, the separate couplingl piece 11 for joining the sections may be 'spensed with and the outwardly projecting flanges so formed as to lock one over the other as for instance by forming one into a hook 22.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A knock-down rece tacle comprising a plurality of non-metalhc sections forming the body portion, a retaining framework for each section comprising reinforcing stay members, longitudinally' disposed flanges on said stay members, couplin pieces adapted to engage said flanges an join the individual sections together, closures for the ends of said receptacle and ears integral with said stay members for v fastening said closures tosaid body portion.

2. A section for a knock-.down receptacle comprising a blank of non-metallicmaterial, a plurality ofl which are necessary to complete the receptacle, a metal framework retaining and inclosing said material and comprlsing stay members located at the side edges of said material and'provided with ears adapted to hold the material to said members, bands located at the other edges4 of said material and secured to said stay members, said bands being provided with ears or flanges adapted to engage the edge of the material and outwardly projecting flanges on said stay members whereby two sections may be joined together, said sta members extending beyond said bands to a ford fastening-means for the heads of the receptacle.

3. As an article of manufacture a section for a knockdown container having a body portion comprising a sector of afpaper cylinder, metallic stays at each edge of said sector, ears from said stays bent around the edge of said body portion, metallic end bands having flanges extending over. the ends of said body portion, said metallic end bands beingsecured to said metallic stays to retain the same in position on said body portion, said metallic members hereinbefore recited comprising a sustaining framework inclosing said sector, and securing means on said edge stays to enable adjacent sectionsto be secured together.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 7th day of October A. D. 1910.

MAURICE LAC.

Witnesses:

C. F. TISGHNER, Jr., IRENE LEFKowITz. 

